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Believing in Better: Kohler CEO on Company’s First ESG Report

3BL Media

We are stepping up our integration of ESG across all parts of our business and supply chain, committing to more stringent data gathering and increasing our transparency about our progress. Last year we strengthened our voice as we publicly shared our beliefs in the role companies must play in addressing water challenges.

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Corporations promise to go deforestation-free – again

Corporate Knights

Still more companies joined the New York Declaration on Forests in 2014. Reflecting on the past 10 years, we learned that solely focusing on individual supply chains and relying on certification will not drive the full-sector transformation needed to end deforestation,” FPC’s 2021 report noted. Grant Reid CEO of Mars Inc.

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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. During COP26, Lord Goldsmith admitted the UK had ‘real problems’ with burning wood for electricity. However, the plant has faced a string of delays and has yet to produce any electricity.

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Small businesses contribute a third of UK emissions, but are laggards in the net zero race

Envirotec Magazine

We launched our ground-breaking Net Zero Strategy this week and in the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow next month, we are pulling every lever we can to get every part of the UK’s business community on board with the vital need to reduce emissions and build back greener.”.

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Amazon’s massive renewable energy portfolio just got a lot bigger

Renewable Energy World

At COP26, the world agreed we needed bigger and bolder ambitions around global carbon reduction from all sectors. Demand for renewable energy by public and corporate groups, coupled with global supply chain constraints, are likely causing the pricing pressure, analysts wrote. in the second quarter of 2021, and is up 14.4%

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How soy, beef and leather supply chains are threatening one of South America’s last forest frontiers

Corporate Knights

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been pushing governments and agribusiness to do more to rid supply chains of the deforestation that is threatening the region. And lawmakers are now proposing regulations in the European Union and the United States that will force companies to rid their supply chains of deforestation. “If

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Despite the Headlines, 2021 Was A Year Full of Environmental Victories

Richard Matthews

International cooperation is the goal of the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) and despite being dismissed as a failure, the final agreement at COP26 emphasized the importance of nature and ecosystems, including protecting forests and biodiversity. At COP26 the world took a step back from fossil fuels for the first time.